# Managing Director

> EQL Tech · United States (Remote) · Full-time · Posted 2026-06-26

**Salary:** USD 200,000–230,000

**Workplace:** remote

**Department:** Leadership

## Description

### Managing Director, Blueprint Biosecurity

**Location:** Remote (US), Washington DC preferred | **Type:** Full-Time, executive leadership | **Reports to:** Executive Director & Founder

EQL Tech is partnering with Blueprint Biosecurity, a nonprofit dedicated to strengthening society's ability to prevent and respond to pandemics. Blueprint advances practical, pathogen-agnostic solutions — spanning PPE, far-UVC, and other airborne pathogen mitigation technologies — through targeted research, strategic grantmaking, and evidence-based policy guidance, working with partners across government, academia, industry, and philanthropy to turn its strategic frameworks ("Blueprints") into real-world action.

### Role Overview

Blueprint is at an inflection point: multiple landmark far-UVC studies report this year, its year-old government affairs function has already shaped how Congress thinks about respiratory protection, and the organization raised $17.5M in 2025 while scaling significantly across staffing, grantmaking, and policy engagement. The Managing Director is Blueprint's senior delivery leader — reporting to Jake Swett and partnering closely with the COO — taking ownership of programmatic work, communications, and government affairs as Blueprint scales toward roughly 40 people. You'll lead and develop 6–8 senior direct reports as a hands-on manager-of-managers, acting as the buffer that frees the Executive Director to focus on strategy and the outside world. Above all, this calls for a galvanizing leader who brings energy, momentum, and genuine warmth — complementing the analytical, evidence-first style already in place.

### Key Responsibilities

-   **Manage and grow 6–8 senior leaders** as a true manager-of-managers — coaching them, raising their leadership capability, and holding a high performance bar with empathy.
-   **Build a high-trust, high-energy culture** that pairs rigor and urgency with the morale and momentum demanding work requires.
-   **Own execution across Blueprint's programs**, including flagship initiatives like Project AIR, translating the North Star into ambitious, measurable goals.
-   **Make and own hard calls** — weighing trade-offs, flagging risks early, and driving work across the finish line.
-   **Lead communications strategy**, ensuring Blueprint's work reaches funders, partners, policymakers, and the public with clarity and impact.
-   **Steward the government affairs function**, sustaining the policy momentum influencing pandemic-preparedness funding and deployment.
-   **Extend the Executive Director's capacity**, representing Blueprint externally with funding partners, research institutions, and government stakeholders.

## Requirements

### Who You Are

-   **High-integrity, sharp, and hard-working** — non-negotiables.
-   A **galvanizing, hands-on leader** — a builder and doer who brings energy to the people around you.
-   **Self-aware and genuinely open to feedback**, comfortable being challenged and quick to update.
-   A **collaborative, evidence-based decision-maker** with the judgment to make strong individual calls when it matters.
-   Aligned with Blueprint's values — Maximizing Impact, Agency, Extreme Ownership, Truth Seeking, Excellence, and Strategic Thinking.
-   Driven by the mission, bringing real urgency to pandemic prevention.

### Qualifications

-   **10+ years of leadership experience**, with a track record of building and leading high-performing teams to ambitious outcomes.
-   **Proven people management** — you have managed managers and intentionally built healthy, high-trust team culture.
-   A history of **translating strategy into execution** and complex initiatives into scalable results.
-   **Strong stakeholder fluency** across scientific, policy, and implementation audiences, with excellent written and spoken communication.
-   _Nice to have:_ familiarity with biosecurity, public health, or pandemic preparedness (or a clear ability to ramp quickly in a technical domain); experience in nonprofits, startups, or other high-growth, high-ambiguity environments.

## Benefits

-   Unlimited PTO plus paid holidays.
-   Generous health and wellness benefits through an ICHRA, for you and your family.
-   Fully paid family leave.
-   Annual 401(k) contributions equal to 10% of base salary.
-   $5,000 annually toward professional development and productive remote work.
-   Access to multiple state-of-the-art LLMs; institutional access to major news outlets and publications.

**Application / accommodations contact field:**  
Apply via EQL Tech. Reviewed on a rolling basis.[](mailto:hiring@eqltech.ai)

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